Alias Grace

Based on the novel by Margaret Atwood, inspired by a true story, the miniseries tells the story of Grace Marks, a domestic immigrant from Ireland to Canada. The series tells how the Marks was arrested in 1843, perhaps unjustly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Even the maid (and lover) who was pregnant by Kinnear, Nancy Montgomery, had been killed, thrown into the cellar and torn to pieces. The handyman and groom James McDermott, executor of the crime, was sentenced to death and hanged. Grace Marks, who at the time was not even sixteen, was initially sentenced to death, then the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.